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Mrs. Fisher’s Custard Pie

Try making this recipe for custard pie from What Mrs. Fisher knows About Old
Southern Cooking, 1881, the first African-American cookbook!

Servings: 1 9″ Pie

Author:

Prep Time
1

Chilling Time for Pie Dough
2

Total Time
3

Course:

Dessert

Cuisine:

American

Keywords:

pie Custard vintage

🧂 Ingredients

8 oz flour, about 2 cups sifted

plus more for rolling
4 tbsp butter
4 tbsp lard
Ice water
3 eggs
1 cups whole milk
1/2 cup white granulated sugar
1/2 fresh nutmeg (about 1 teaspoon), divided
1 tsp vanilla (optional, this was not in the original recipe, see notes)